I replaced doomscrolling with coding from my couch

by kewun • 6 months ago

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kewun• 6 months ago

I used to burn hours doomscrolling on my phone. Instagram, X, games – always felt like wasted time.

When AI coding agents took off, I realized I could redirect that habit into something productive. So I built Kibbler.

It's a mobile app that connects to Claude Code running on your dev machine. You can prompt from your phone, see streaming responses, preview file changes, and approve/reject edits before they're applied.

Currently it's limited. Only supported for iPhones and those using Jetbrain plugins. If this develops any traction, I'll consider expanding the support.

Tech: iOS app → Go proxy server → Claude CLI subprocess. Uses mTLS for auth and SSE for streaming.

Some challenges I ran into:

  - Race conditions everywhere. Streaming responses + approval workflows + multiple sessions meant race conditions kept popping up. I had other issues with context getting lost after approvals, messages routing to wrong sessions, UI state getting out of sync etc.

Did a lot of dogfooding. I actually used Kibbler to build Kibbler, which helped uncover issues I never would've caught otherwise. Fun project overall.

I replaced doomscrolling with coding from my couch

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